Quotables and Doc results
I have to capture today’s conversations before I forget!
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On the way home from The Child Psych that dx The Elder he says…
“Now we go to a house…..it starts with a J……..he’s my friend……and there’s a Thomas, Percy, James…”
“OK, I’ll call Joshua’s mom right now to set a time.”
“You’re right!! You guessed Joshua’s house!”
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“OK I left a message for Joshua’s mom to call me back.”
“We can go to his house and wait for him.”
“No, that’s called stalking.”
“I want to do that….I want to stalking.”
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“Let’s figure out what we will eat.”
“I want to go to Buddy’s”
“We have Buddy’s at home.”
“But I want to GO to Buddy’s”
“If we GO anywhere if won’t be Buddy’s because we have that at home.”
“I want pizza.”
“Well, I don’t know how to make daddy’s pizza, but we can stop at Go Nutrition and get a frozen pizza.” (Sad, I know)
“Sure!” (more like “shore”)
“Um, this is the part to our house.”
“The part?”
“Yes”
“Do you mean path?”
“Yes”
“As in the road to our house?”
“Yes”
“You’re right it is, but it is also the road to Go Nutrition.”
As we pull into the parking lot of the store…
“Ooohhhhhh, I think you guessed right.”
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Now we are on the way home from the store pulling into the subdivision…
“We are almost home.”
“Yes, which way do we go.” I’ve never asked him to navigate before…
“I fink we go right.”
“OK now we are going right, now what?”
“Next is left
…..you go straight for the wrong way…Eliza lives there. (classmate)
…..Another straight and right
…..Good, mommy, you found the right road
…..now there a little tiny curve…you pass this house…and our car goes there…and you push the button (for garage door)
…..You did it!!”
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Mind you that ALL happened in the 20 minute ride home (not including the pit stop at the store).
On a completely different note, yet related because this is where we were driving home from…we met with The Child Psych for a re-evalution. Well, “improvement” is an appropriate word for the outcome. In 8 months he went from a nonverbal IQ of 130 (or 7 years 4 months equivalent when he was 3 years, 10 months) which is the 98th percentile, to a nonverbal IQ of 146 (or 11 years 9 months equivalent now he is 4 years and 7 months) which is in the 99.9th percentile. We were totally blown away. I mean we knew he was gifted but gee whiz.
He also improved in the picture naming verbal test – he went up to 73rd. But his Listening Comprehension skills were still low (31st percentile) and dragged his Overall Verbal score from 68th last June to 50th percentile today. He said not to worry about that. I guess it is average. And for comprehension, it doesn’t cause a buzz in the school unless it is less than 25%. His main concern was with prepositions.
Other tests he took were
Reading – 1.9 grade level
Reading Comprehension – 1.4 grade level
Math – K.8 grade level
For the Math tests he was 5 years and 10 months equivalent on one and 6 years on the other. He said that those are probably low compared to his actual ability because the test involves a lot of Listening Comprehension skills.
He stressed for us to have a Social curriculum, encouraging pretend play, game play (balls, chase, and imitation) and with the trains to have a double approach:
1) Limit his talk about trains. E.g. 15 minutes of talking about animals
2) Broaden his love of trains. E.g. to maps to geography OR to gears to electronics to Audio/Visual components. Something pre-vocational.
He said one kid started at trains and has broadened his love to studio production and has visited the Veggie Tales Studio in Nashville. I didn’t even know there was one! We are so going there!
As far as the Kindergarten concern, he really advocates him going to Kindergarten next year. His ideal situation would be for The Elder to go to the transition class if it is approved and go to 1st grade from there (instead of K). He said academically he is already a 1st grader so he really just needs a year to develop his social skills. He predicts in a year he will be reading at a 4th grade level and to put him in Kindergarten is just asking for boredom and behavior problems not even linked to ASD. (That is with a transition year and then K). So it is still up in the air as of what to do.
Has anyone been in this situation and glad of your decision or wish you had made a different one? I really need opinions on this!
Attempt to be a poet
What is a Haiku?
Does it have to have purpose?
So much for trying…
inspired by Niksmom
Thank you…Thank you very much…
Karen at Beyond Understanding bestowed upon me the Beauty Within Award. It originated from MonkeyGirl, who designed it for Joeymom, who passed it on to Niksmom, who passed it on to Kristen and Karen…there! It’s the game of six degrees! Sorta kinda. Anyhoo…
Thanks Karen for sending this my way. Like I said, it means a lot to me. When I think I’m being whiny and kicking myself for it, I’ll picture this tree and treasure all the blessings and miracles I have in my life!
You know…I’m gonna get a little cheesy here so just to forewarn you. But I want to pass this to The Hub. This tree reminds me of him so much. Simple life and so grounded with stronger roots than anyone will ever see. The complex wiring of the branches are what make the tree so beautiful.
This is something that he would like to photograph. Before I met him I might have been a potted plant staring at the ground, missing all of the majesty surrounding me. He reminds me to stop among the hustle and bustle around us, and savor something beautiful; something seemingly simple, yet so detailed; He taught me the motto “take lots of pictures” and I see him chasing the craziest things to photograph, but he can find the beauty in everything and everyone. Thank the good Lord he stuck with me in my ugliest moments!
I love you, babe!
